AVSEQ

Yes, the game with the biggest number musical combinations in the known universe is on sale. AVSEQ is the work of the legendary digital artist and programmer Tom Betts, whose work can be explored over here.

While some of the Indie Royale Bundles haven’t been the strongest, the latest collection in its almost-pay-what-you-want pile is pretty strong. Featuring one of last year’s best games, To The Moon, alongside Wadjet Eye’s most recent Blackwell game, Deception, is Oil Rush, Reprisal, and something called Avseq.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun is a famously impartial website, proudly free of self-serving behaviour, self-promotion or nepotism. We’re basically the New York Times of the gaming internet. And it is from this perspective that I tell you Jim’s gaming company, Big Robot, has just released their puzzle game AVSEQ on Steam.

AVSEQ is an audio-visual sequencer puzzle game. Connect falling atoms to unlock near-endless varieties of music at each stage. Every level of AVSEQ is a music sequencer with 2.2300745198530623×10^43 possible audio permutations, thats 22 tredecillion in total!

No, we're not making those numbers up. We actually did the math. This is a generative music game designed by procedural systems wizard Tom Betts, and it provides a colorful, beautiful challenge to even the most hardcore of puzzle-game experts.